[Rarebooks] FS: Dillon's NARRATIVE & SUCCESSFUL RESULT OF A VOYAGE IN THE SOUTH SEAS, 1829

[Charles Agvent]

DILLON, Chevalier Capt. Peter NARRATIVE & SUCCESSFUL RESULT OF A VOYAGE 
IN THE SOUTH SEAS... TO ASCERTAIN THE ACTUAL FATE OF LA PEROUSE'S 
EXPEDITION...
Hurst, Chance, & Co. London 1829 First Edition. ...INTERSPERSED WITH 
ACCOUNTS OF THE RELIGION, MANNERS,CUSTOMS, AND CANNIBAL PRACTICES OF THE 
SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS. Two octavo (5-1/4" x 8-1/2")volumes in modern 3/4 
navy blue morocco. Complete with two folding frontispieces (one 
hand-colored), a folding map, and one plate. A scarce account of this 
journey to the Solomon Islands via Tasmania, New Zealand, and Tonga that 
successfully solved the mystery of the loss of La Perouse and his 
Expedition forty years previous. Inked out library stamps on the title 
pages, final text pages, and verso of plates. General, even browning to 
text. The hand-colored plate of the natives with tears neatly repaired 
on the verso; the folding map with splits but no loss. A Very Good copy 
of a scarce title.     $2000.00
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